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Lake Service Provider Employee Online Training

If you work for a Lake Service Provider business, you are required by law to complete an online Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) training course before you work in waters of the state. Course Basics

The course is free and takes about an hour to complete.

You are tested throughout the training and must answer the questions correctly to pass the course (but you may attempt the question an unlimited number of times).

At the end of the course a certificate with your name on it is generated and automatically saved on the DNR website. To print copies, just log back in to your account to find the saved certificate. The certificate is the size of a business card. Print the certificate and keep in your possession at all times when working in waters of the state.

Your training certificate is good for three calendar years. If you take the training in 2013, then your certificate is good for 2013, 2014, and 2015. In 2016, you would need to take the training again and obtain a new certificate.

Your training certificate travels with you between employers. Even if you work for multiple lake service providers, you still only need to do this training once every three years.

Computer System Requirements for the training

Instructions for the training (MUST READ)

You must complete the training in one sitting. The training presentation will take approximately one hour. If you exit the training before completion you will have to start again from the beginning. Your test question answers will not be saved.

You will need to print out your certificate at the end of the training. Make sure you are at a computer that is attached to a printer. Even though the certificate is in color, you may print on either a color or black and white printer.

You need the sound enabled on your computer so you can listen to the training. (To adjust the volume, click on the speaker icon in the bottom of the screen.) A transcript of the narration is also provided.

To progress through the training, wait for the narration to complete and then use the forward arrow to move on to the next slide.

You may use the arrows in the presentation to return to slides you have already viewed. Do not use the back arrow or button on your browser. This will cause you to exit the training and you will have to start again from the beginning. Your test question answers will not be saved.

You must view each slide in order to complete this training.

You may pause a slide by pressing the Pause button in the lower left corner. When you are ready to resume the training session, press the Play button in the lower left corner.

The training contains a series of short quizzes. You must answer quiz questions correctly to advance, but you may take the quiz unlimited times.

After reading requirements and instructions above, you may take the online training.

Each employee at your business needs to register and create their own account. The name of the account holder will be the name that is printed on the certificate when you complete the training.

After you print the page out, you should cut the certificate out so it will be a convenient size to carry with you. You may keep it in your wallet, place it in a plastic cover available for luggage tags and attach it to your work gear, buy a lamination sticker from an office supply store, have it laminated at a copying shop, or another process that makes it easy for you to keep it protected and in your possession when working. You may print out as many copies as you'd like.